2:14:36 – A fabulous, international look at the Morning Meal and Cereal, too!! Jimbo, Rubenerd, Chad, Clara, Frank, and more!! PQ hosts and yaks it up, as well as reviewing the past week’s doings on ONSUG and telling you how to be part of the fun!!

Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts presenting an array of talk-driven programs of distinction.

01:26:59 – Starting Chinese school, texts and patterns of learning, poem recitals (‘Climbing a Mountain’, ‘Calendar’), using English to write down word pronounciations (vs use of bopomofo), stories such as 畫蛇添足 (draw snake add legs), 草船借箭 (To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats), memorised poems (‘Before the bed there is a bright moon’, ‘Returning Home’), some Chinese songs (incl. Chinese version of a popular song from 1989, a Chinese opening theme for a TBV drama), and more.

01:15:36 – Halloween in Australia , the spirit of Halloween despite not celebrating it officially, songs playing in the store, changing prices over the years, glassware and ceramics from Japan and other countries, food sold in Daiso Japan, Japanese on various crockery, smashing fragile glass or ceramic items in a shop, further drooling over crockery, hair accessories, measuring systems in the US vs UK, Japanese snacks and sweets (Pocky, youkan, hard and gumi candies, sauces, dried foods), fake flowers and carp streamers, Engrish on Japanese products and more.

1:20:13 – We’ve got us a few fragmentary episodes of The Jack Benny Program from almost exactly 81 years ago. Jell-O enters the picture and will bounce around here for several years (by the OTR history, that is). Radio Free Shambles is still on hiatus for the time being (although I recorded one in a dream I had last night).

Jack Benny, Set #6 (9/28/34-10/28/34)
Last Show of the Season – Rise of the House of Rawchild (9/28/34) *
First Show for Jell-O – Jack Benny, Grocery Store Owner Part 1 (10/14/34) *
Jack Benny, Grocery Store Owner Part 2 (10/21/34) *
The Bennys of Wimpole Street (10/28/34) *

*Partial

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:51:00 — Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: a history of “Happy Birthday”, and how it was finally freed from copyright this week; Kampgrounds of America (KOA) and its Kranky Kustomer service; ran into high school friend who was a huge “Tears for Fears” fan a day after I talked about him; lattice of coincidence; local hipster bistro is actually a “breastraunt” in disguise; failed job interview I once had at a Hooter’s; more “Friday the 13th” marathon audio with friends Jason and Adam; awkward Folger’s ads from the 90’s; TV review — “Project Greenlight”, and much more!

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.